Part of the Family

"Today was a great day of work at Royal Seed, they are very nice to me, and we all work hard feeding the kids, bathing, playing, and doing all sorts of things we would do in a big house with a huge family, much bigger than mine in Brazil :)

Today they told me that it is a Ghana tradition that only the mother can carry her own baby on her back, or somebody from the family, many volunteers don't get to do it, and Naomi - the director - came to me to say that they think I'm part of their family and that is why I get to carry the babies on my back too, only then I realized that nobody else does it. It makes me happy that I'm close to them.

I don't know if I told you, but little Francis, the boy from the twins, walked his first steps last week with me!!! Can you imagine how happy I was? I came outside and wanted to show everybody that he could walk 2 steps!!! He is doing great, we practice everyday and by the time I leave I hope that he will be walking everywhere by himself :)

Also, there is a baby called Junior, they said at the police station that he is 7 months old, Naomi thinks he is 9, but I think that he is 12 months old already. Since the first time I saw him, he never smiled, he was always crying and can't really stand up by himself yet. I'm pretty sure he has some sort of special needs, but even though I could try to figure out with some psychology tests, it is too early to diagnose. Well, I've been trying to spend some more time with him lately, and today for the first time he was laughing :) it made my day! It is funny how jealous he is with me, if the other kids try to play with me when I'm holding him or when they touch my legs he cries so much... haha, I'll find a way to deal with that. But I'm happy with his progress."